Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 36

The Boy now ordered the drums to be beaten, and on hearing this sound the whole of the spider family, thinking that the noise was thunder, and that spring had undoubtedly arrived, hastily emerged from the Lady’s ear and let themselves down, one after another, on to the green cloth.

Who acts: Boy, drums, noise, spring · What happens: order, beat, hear, think, be, arrive · To what, where: drums, sound, thunder, ear, family, green cloth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How He Dislodged the Spider.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Boy, drums, noise, spring), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Boy	det
2	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 ordered	nsubj
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 ordered	advmod
4	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 drums	det
6	drums	drum	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ordered	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	9 beaten	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 beaten	aux:pass
9	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 ordered	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hearing	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hearing	cc
12	on	on	SCONJ	_	13 hearing	mark
13	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 ordered	advcl
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 sound	det
15	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hearing	obj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 whole	det
17	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hearing	parataxis
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 family	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 family	det
20	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 family	compound
21	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 whole	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 thinking	punct
23	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 hearing	conj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 thunder	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 noise	det
26	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 thunder	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 thunder	cop
28	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 thinking	ccomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 arrived	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 arrived	cc
31	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 spring	det
32	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 arrived	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 arrived	aux
34	undoubtedly	undoubtedly	ADV	_	35 arrived	advmod
35	arrived	arrive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 ordered	parataxis
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 emerged	punct
37	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	38 emerged	advmod
38	emerged	emerge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 arrived	conj
39	from	from	ADP	_	43 ear	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 Lady	det
41	Lady	Lady	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 ear	nmod:poss
42	’s	's	PART	_	41 Lady	case
43	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 emerged	obl
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 let	cc
45	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	35 arrived	conj
46	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	45 let	obj
47	down	down	ADP	_	45 let	compound:prt
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 one	punct
49	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	45 let	obl
50	after	after	ADP	_	51 another	case
51	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	49 one	nmod
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 cloth	punct
53	on	on	ADP	_	57 cloth	case
54	to	to	ADP	_	57 cloth	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 cloth	det
56	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 cloth	amod
57	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 let	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ordered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	order	past	the Boy	the drums		now		vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent drum=Recipient clause=Topic
2	beat not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	the drums not said here					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»
3	hear	gerund	the Boy not said here	this sound				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus
4	think speech: other	gerund	the Boy not said here					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	the noise	thunder				tree rules
6	arrive	past · perfect	that spring				undoubtedly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	emerge	participle	that spring not said here		the Lady's ear		hastily property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from ear=Initial_Location
8	let down	infinitive	that spring not said here	family	the green cloth		one after another obl	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme on cloth=Asset

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 36

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Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 36